The influence of fantastical discourse context on young children’s on-line sentence comprehension

孩子们在故事中遇到了许多奇幻的事件(例如彼得·潘起飞和飞行)。当学龄前儿童被问到关于故事是如何运作的明确问题时，他们表明了他们的理解，即小说中的事件可能与他们所知道的现实世界中发生的事件的方式相矛盾。然而，孩子们对露骨问题的回答往往与他们对事件的实时解读有很大不同。

Children encounter many fantastical events in stories (e.g. Peter Pan takes off and flies). When preschoolers are asked explicit questions about how stories work, they show their understanding that events in fiction can contradict what they know about the way events happen in the real world. However, children’s answers to explicit questions often differ significantly from their interpretation of events in real time.